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PlayStation Sales Halted?
Narf Narf writes "According to Japan Today, the U.S. District Court in Oakland, California, has ordered Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. and its U.S. unit to pay $90.7 million in damages to Immersion Corp. for patent infringement over controllers used with PlayStation game consoles. In the ruling handed down Thursday, the federal court also ordered Sony Computer Entertainment and Sony Entertainment America Inc. to stop selling the PlayStation and PlayStation 2 game consoles using Dualshock controllers as well as more than 40 game software products." Update: 03/28 04:51 GMT by Z : ...which was followed immediately by an injunction, to allow Sony time for an appeal, and a compulsory licensing agreement.
Look Ma! I can make the controller vibrates! It MUST be an invention worth 100 millions dollars, right?
"Inventions", these days...
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So when are they going to remove the feeding tube of PS ? I wonder if Arnold is behind it. LOL
Located just across the bay from San Francisco...
Home of the United States Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals...
The most out-of-touch court in the entire country, if not the world...
Why am I not surprised at this ruling?
"It's the height of ridiculousness to say for those 9 lines you get hundreds of millions."
go fuck yourself turd burglar
Yeah, if you're a fucking giant.
Sony is not nearly healthy enough financially to be able to acquire Immersion.